Feedorific design, part 1: Feedreader

Here are my thoughts on the design of Feedorific, Django-version:

The various apps will be:

• Feedreader -
  Accepts and stores feeds from users, gets the xml, parses out and displays entries and descriptions. Feeds entered will also be stored to DB.
  
• Structureparser -
  Parses stored feeds for their structure.
  
• Contentparser -
  Parses stored feeds for their content.
  
• Organization -
  Very unsure about this last section's design. It will display the fully-parsed feeds, allow searching, tagging, etc. This may also be integrated with a visually-organized display of feed articles by content.

Here is what I have on the design of the feedreader element so far:

Feedreader design

Django to the rescue

I found myself having much difficulty getting what I had of the feedparser setup in such a way that I could return html code that looked good. Also, there are no real tutorials, since no one seems to just use Python and html. It seems a lot more common to use some templating language or some other framework to link everything.

So, I decided to rewrite it all with Django. I don't know Django very well, but it seems powerful enough without having to be another enterprise level CMS that I don't need. It is also well-documented, Python-centric, and designed for fast-paced development.

It's (a)live! Feedorific!

Since the old immortalcuriosity.com was all in Plone, after switching to a different server, I had a blank slate to work with. What better to fill this void with than my feedparsing project! So with a little Apache, a little Python, and a little help from my friends, the current form of the feedparsing system is accessible at www.immortalcuriosity.com. A warning: It looks like junk and barely works in IE. It's perfect in Firefox. Sorry, but I just don't care about a bad browser enough to put the hacks in yet. Maybe later.